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d1 - d7 Shooting/display

How to Get Here

Press MENU, go to the left and select up and down to the pencil icon. You'll then see CUSTOM SETTING MENU on the color LCD. Click down to d SHOOTING/DISPLAY and click to the right.

What it Does

This menu is a random jumble. These ideally belong in other menus.

What I Change

I change d1, d3 and d4, two of which are very important.

I'm sorry that Nikon put a menu called Shooting inside a menu called Custom Setting, since it has nothing to do with the larger Shooting Menu. This is something else that needs to be reorganized. Sorry.

Nikon goofed, and left it OFF by default. Left this way, you'll start from DSC_0001 every time you reformat a card! Over time you'll have hundreds of photos on your computer all called DSC_0001. It will drive you crazy and it will be too late to do anything about it.

This lets you permanently stamp the actual image with date, time or relative timing. it has nothing to do with the EXIF data which all digital cameras record along with the files where it isn't visible unless you read the file on your computer.

Set this ON, and it burns orange numbers into the lower right corner of every picture as you take it.

This is just like film cameras that could be set to burn data onto the film.

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